Daily Archives: August 22, 2013

Post by Andrew Harshey Later this afternoon, our team will be participating in a field day for some healthy competition between Discovery Education’s employees. It’s Sales vs. Support in the battle for the title of Discovery Education’s A-Team! With games such as tug of war, pillow sack races, three legged races, and water balloon tosses,

This should have been written sooner but my summer has flown by. Since I got home from DENSI on July 20, I had two additional adventures. First, I had a booth at the Maker Faire Detroit at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. After that I was part of a high adventure trek to the

At the moment, we have 38 attendees scheduled to attend DEN Gone Country in Nashville, TN from September 20 to 22. That means we have room for TWO more! Will it be you? If you can arrive on the afternoon of the 20th and leave on the afternoon of the 22nd, you should apply! Hotel

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One of my least favorite trends in education is hatin’ on PowerPoint. Visual presentation in and of itself isn’t the problem! A quick glance of Google search results for “PowerPoint meme” sums up the anti-PowerPoint narrative sweeping the web: PowerPoints can be dreadfully boring, and relying solely on teacher-centered instruction is problematic. That being

Many of you may have realized, to your chagrin, that the Xtranormal site has been shut down as of July 31st. I searched for alternatives and found Digital Films . I have only been playing around with it for a few hours, but have not noticed a feature that allows characters to speak typed text

I pride myself on my lectures. I was voted “Best Lecturer” in the 2013 Sherwood High School yearbook. I’ve been told that my lectures are easily understood, engaging, interactive with plenty of student discourse–and I’m pretty darn funny! My students consistently scored very well on the Advanced Placement U.S. history exam. So what’s the issue? Lecturing works.